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The Catch
  • Published: 15 February 2016
  • ISBN: 9781784740658
  • Imprint: Chatto & Windus
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 80
  • RRP: $32.99
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The Catch

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Crystalline poems of beauty and risk, from T.S. Eliot and Forward Prize shortlisted poet, Fiona Sampson

Fiona Sampson’s latest collection transforms the sensory world into an astonishingly new and vivid poetry. Here, dream and myth, creatures real and imagined, and the sights and sounds of ‘distance and of home’ all coalesce in a sustained meditation on time and belonging.

Combining formal sophistication with metaphysical exploration, this is an incandescent work of renewal, beauty and risk.
  • Published: 15 February 2016
  • ISBN: 9781784740658
  • Imprint: Chatto & Windus
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 80
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Fiona Sampson

Fiona Sampson MBE FRSL is a leading British poet, a writer and Romanticist. Professor Emerita of Poetry, University of Roehampton and Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College University of Oxford, she has received numerous national and international literary awards. Translated into over thirty languages, she’s the author of two acclaimed biographies. In Search of Mary Shelley was an Observer, Independent, Financial Times and a Times Book of the Year. Two-Way Mirror was Washington Post Book of the Year, New York Times ‘Editors' Choice’, finalist for the Plutarch Prize & US PEN’s Jacqueline Bograd Weld international award for biography.

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Praise for The Catch

You go to Fiona Sampson for intensity, and The Catch doesn’t disappoint.

Suzi Feay, Independent on Sunday

[Sampson] has an intense relationship with nature, communicated in delicate observations.

Bel Mooney, Daily Mail

A complex economy of lived feeling… She can also render complexity of feeling with the economy that marks a poet of a high order… That rich plainness is enviable

Sean O'Brien, Independent

Sampson’s verse feels alive.

Leaf Arbuthnot, Times Literary Supplement

The Catch seems above all to be a narrative of mystical experience; free of God and dogma, but deeply aware of history and ecology, it may be among the pioneers of a newly emergent 21st-century incarnation of sacred poetry

Carol Rumens, Guardian

Full of originality and spirit, these poems are beautifully made and a joy to read

W.S. Merwin